Selected by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1st round (No. 16 overall) of the June 2006 First-Year Player Draft...signed by Tim McIlvaine...graduated from Halifax County (Va.) High School...also played basketball in high school...full name is Jeremy Ross Jeffress...born Sept. 21, 1987 in South Boston, Va....tested positive for a "drug of abuse" sometime after the 2006 Draft but was not suspended...tested positive a second time for "a drug of abuse" and was suspended 50 games in 2007; later admitted to marijuana use...tested positive a third time for a "drug of abuse" and received a 100-game suspension on June 29, 2009under Minor League Baseball's Joint Drug Treatment and Prevention Program.